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Ron DeSantis Has Dropped to Fifth in New Hampshire Polling.
It doesn’t seem to be getting any better for the GOP’s supposed Trump alternative.
Of all the storylines we could pick from this upcoming 2024 election, I’m not sure there are many more satisfying than the fall of Florida governor Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign. It seemed doomed from the beginning and very little if anything at all has happened that changed that. One might have thought that the frontrunner facing not one, not two, but four criminal indictments might have moved the needle a bit, but DeSantis has not appeared to benefit at all. In fact, things are only continuing to get worse for him.
Martin Pengelly with The Guardian writes:
“The Florida governor Ron DeSantis fell to fifth in a new New Hampshire poll, trailing not just Donald Trump, the runaway leader for the Republican presidential nomination, but Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley and Chris Christie.
The poll, from CNN and the University of New Hampshire (UNH), was just the latest worrying sign for DeSantis, whose hard-right campaign has struggled ever since a glitch-filled launch with Elon Musk on his social media platform in May…”
The man who so many thought might be the heir apparent to the Republican Party has now…
